Stunting and Marginalisation and Lack of Resiliency

Abstract Malnutrition across the world is a global issue but in the developing countries it is catastrophic. Poverty affects nutrition and nutrition affects poverty, while income poverty is important to nutrition it is not strongly correlated, it is here we begin this interdisciplinary dialogue on a growing phenomenon in Asia called stunting. Stunting or chronic under nutrition, resulting in growth retardation is indicated by height for-age. Nearly 40 percent of the children in SAARC countries are engulfed in poor conditions for growth and development. Clinical etiology suggests that lack of nutrition, presence of infection and lack of motherinfant interaction insufficient food supply both in quantity and quality and recurrence of infectious diseases results in stunting or chronic under nutrition. Stunting, as a manifestation of deprivation in early childhood, is a common problem among young children. We suggest that poverty and lack of resources may predispose a child to maladjustment in the grown-up society, lacking in resiliency. This paper examines the relationship between poverty, marginalization and health in the context of stunting, under weight and wasting among children and malnutrition among women and adolescent girls lacking in resilience